Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1912-1998. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
6 boxes, 1 parcel, 1 folder.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in Scotland in 1907, James B. Henderson emigrated to Australia with his parents, settling in the mining communities of Blair Athol and later Collinsville in Central Queensland. Employed as a schoolteacher in Collinsville in the late 1920s, Henderson soon became an active and vocal member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). In 1944 following the election of Fred Paterson as the CPA candidate for Bowen, a campaign in which Henderson played a significant role, Henderson was called to Brisbane by the Party to act as a fulltime functionary. In 1960 Henderson worked as a translator for Ho Chi Minh in North Vietnam. In 1981 he joined the newly formed Socialist Party of Australia, continuing until his death in 1998 to be an outspoken critic of capitalism and social injustice.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1912-1998
Collection alternatively titled as: Jim Henderson Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes: correspondence; photographs; manuscript of unpublished autobiography "Memoirs of a Communist"; obituary; medals received from Ho Chi Minh and dignitaries from Communist countries visited. Also includes audio tapes featuring talks on Nelson Mandela; memoirs; newspaper cuttings; manuscripts of published and unpublished articles; pamphlets; leaflets, flyers, articles on the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party of Australia.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies. Contact the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Original recordings of interviews and presentations are stored on analogue audiocassettes which cannot be accessed for preservation reasons. Access to content is via digital audio files.
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
View selected items in UQ eSpace
Another set of the audio recordings from the North Queensland Labour History Conference of June 1987 are available in the Paul Turnbull Sound Recordings, UQFL628.
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Jon Piccini (2015) “More than an abstract principle”: reimagining rights in the Communist Party of Australia, 1956–1971, Journal of Australian Studies, 39:2, 200-215.
Piccini, J. (2019). Human rights in twentieth-century Australia, Cambridge University Press.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Henderson, Jim, 1907-1998 (Subject)
- Socialist Party of Australia (Subject)
- Communist Party of Australia (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 17-Aug-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.